


BRIEF 

111 Favor of Keeping the World's Fair Closed 
on Sunday. 



Before the Committees of the United States Senate and 
House of Representatives. 



Washington, April, 1892. 



Senate Cmnmittee on the Quadro- 
Centennial. 
Hon. R. F. Pettigrew, S. Dak., 

Chairman. 
Frank Hiscock, N. Y. 
John Sherman, 0. 
James Donald Cameron, Pa. 
Jos. R. Hawley, Ct. 
James F. Wilson, Iowa. 
Leland Stanford, Cal. 
Alfred H, Colquitt, Ga. 
Matthew W. Ransom, N. C. 
George G. Vest, Mo. 
John E. Kenna, W. Va. 
George Gray, Del. 
John \V. Daniel, Vh. 
William F. Vilas, Wis. 



House Committee on the Columbian 
Exposition. 
Hon. Allen C. Durburow, Chicago, 
Chairman. 
James B. McCreary, Ky. 
James D. Reilly, Pa. 
George W. Houk, O. 
Joseph Wheeler, Ala. 
Matthew D. Logan, La. 
Joseph J. Little, N. Y. 
William Cogswell, Mass. 
Nelson Dingley, Jr., Me. 
John B. Robinson, Pa. 
Jonathan P. Dolliver, Iowa. 






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Statement. 

The Christian sentiment of the Country desires to have 
introduced into 

H. R. BILL No. 6953, 

or any bill which may take its place, the proviso that the 
Columbian Exhibition shall not be opened to the public on 
Sundays. 

Points. 

I. Such a proviso is constitutional. 

II. It is expedient for the Congress to adopt it. 

III. It will contribute to the orderly conduct of the whole 
Exhibition, and to the health and morals of those attending. 

lY. It will aid its financial success, and bless the work- 
ingman. 

Y. It is demanded by the Christian and patriotic senti- 
ment of the Country. 

YI. It will honor God and preserve the faith of the 
Nation. 

YII. It will teach visiting nations the way of happiness. 

I. 

It will be in accordance with the Constitution and laws 
or this Country to provide by act of Congress that the 
Columbian Exhibition or Columbian Exposition shall not 
be opened to the public on sunday. 



This Country is a Christian Country. 

Christopher Columbus's commission, 1492, is from Ferdi- 
nand and Isabella, by the grace of God, King and Queen of 
Castile and Arragon. 



The first colonial grant is by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Wal- 
ter Raleigh in 1584, and authorizes him to ordain statutes, 
provided " they be not against the true Christian faith." 

The first charter of Virginia is by James I, A. D. 1G06, 
and, among other objects, is for " the propagating of Christian 
religion." 

Other charters for other colonies contain a like provision. 



The Covenant of the Pilgrims in the Mayflower, A. D. 1620, 
says their voyage was " undertaken for the advancement of 
the Christian faith." 



The Connecticut Fundamental Orders, 1638, " maintain 
the liberty and purity of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus." 



Wm. Penn's charter to Pennsylvania, 1701, acknowledges 
that " Almighty God is the author as well as object of all 
divine knowledge, faith, and worship." 



The American National Declaration of Independence 
" appeals to the Supreme Judge of the World," and is signed 
" with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Provi- 
dence." 



The United States Constitution allows the President " ten 
days (Sundays excepted)" for approving or vetoing a bilL 



The Illinois Constitution, 1870, thanks "Almighty God for 
civil, political, and religious liberty." 



The Maryland Constitution, 1867, renders any person 
competent to be a witness and juror " provided he believes 
in the existence of God." 



The Massachusetts Constitution, 1780, prescribes that it is 
the " duty of all men publicly and at stated seasons to wor- 
ship the Supreme Being." 



The Mississippi Constitution, A. D. 1832, provides that 
" no person who denies the being of a God shall hold any 
office." 

The Delaware Constitution, A. D. 1776, required all 
officers to " profess faith in God." 



" Christianity always has been a part of the common law 
of Pennsylvania." 

Updegraph v. Commonwealth, 11 Sergeant and Eawles' 
Keports. / 

" The people of the State of New York, in common with 
the people of this Country, profess the general doctrines of 
Christianity as the rule of their faith and practice." 
People V. Kuggles, 8 Johnson's Eeports, 



The Illinois Sunday law of 1845 prescribes that " Who- 
ever disturbs the peace and good order of society by labor 
(works of necessity and charity excepted), or by any amuse- 
ment or diversion on Sunday, shall be fined not exceeding 
125, and whoever shall be guilty of any noise, rout, or amuse- 
ment on the first day of the week, called Sunday, whereby 
the peace of an}^ private family may be disturbed, sliall be 
fined not exceeding $25. 

This shows that the proviso will be entirely consonant with 
the local law of the place of holding the Exposition. 

" If we pass to a view of American life as expressed by its 
laws, its business, its customs, and its society, we find every- 
where a clear recognition of the truth. 

*' Among other matters note the following : The form of oath 
universally prevailing concludes with an appeal to the Al- 
mighty ; the custom of opening sessions of all deliberative 
bodies and most conventions with prayer ; the preparatory 
words of wills, "In the name of God, Amen ; " the laws re- 
specting the observance of the Sabbath, with the general 
cessation of all secular business, and the closing of courts, 
legislatures, and other similar. public assemblies on that 
day ; the churches and church organizations which abound 
in every city, town, and hamlet ; the multitude of charitable 
organizations existing e^ery where under Christian auspices ; 
the gigantic missionary associations, with general support, 
and aiming to establish Christian missions in every quarter 
of the ixlobe. These and many other matters which might 



BE NOTICED ADD A VOLUME OF UNOFFICIAL DECLAKATIONS TO THE 
MASS OF ORGANIC UTTERANCES THAT THIS IS A CHRISTIAN NA- 
TION." 

Rector of Holy Trinity (N. Y.) v. United States. Unan- 
imous decision, February 29, 1892. United States 
Supreme Court. Opinion by Mr. Justice Brewer. 



Retired Justice Strong of the same Court says that the 
proposed clause would not be obnoxious to the National 
Constitution. 

2. 

In ALL MATTERS NOT PROHIBITED BY THE CONSTITUTION, CON- 
GRESS MAY ANNEX ANY CONDITION THEY CHOOSE TO THE EXPENDI- 
TURE OF THE National Money. 

3. 

Congress cofdd require the Exhibition to be closed on 
Wednesday, or to be free of charge for admission on Tues- 
day, or to be open all Thursday night, or make any other 
condition for the granting of money. 



To direct that the " Exhibition shall not be opened on the 
people's day of worship would not make a law respecting 
the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise 
thereof," as mentioned in the first Amendment to the Na- 
tional Constitution. 



5. 

Under the common law of this Country and the National 
custom, the traffic and lal.or of selling and collecting tickets 
and running the Exhibition would be suspended on the Sab- 
bath, Sunday, or the Lord's Day, as it is variously called, 
and the proposed proviso will simply prevent the National 
World's Columbian Commission from overthrowing this law 
and custom, should they desire to do so. 

11. 

It is expedient for the Congress to adopt the proviso. 

When the National will is right, as in this case. Congress 
should respect it. 

Presidents Washington, Adams, Madison, Jackson, Lin- 
coln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Cleveland, Harrison, and others 
have urged the Nation in various messages, military orders, 
and otherwise, to rest on the Sabbath day, and these have all 
been consonant to the National will. 



The example of the most illustrious citizens filling the Ex- 
ecutive chair of the Kepublic may be safely followed by 
Congress. 

It is always wise, expedient, prudent, and commend- 
able both to enact and obey wholesome legislation which is 
conservative and preservative of the institutions of the 
Country. 



Each Congressman who votes for this measure will cover 
himself with glory in the eyes of the Xation 



III. 

Keeping the Exhibition Closed on Sunday will Con- 
tribute TO THE Orderly Conduct of the Whole Fair, 

AND TO THE HEALTH AND MORALS OF YlSITORS. 

Man's obedience to human law is based on, his belief in 
Divine Law. If the Divine LaAv "Remember the Sabbath 
day to keep it holy " be overthrown, then man's obedience to 
human law will cease, and fraud, deceit, chicanery, lying, 
drunkenness, theft, fightings would be multiplied. 

But if the Divine Law is respected, and the example set by 
the closing of the whole Exposition, the people will not 
crowd, lie, steal, cheat, murder, but will be temperate, or- 
derly, self -restrained, bright-spirited, easily governed, obedi- 
ent to all rules and regulations. 



Law and order are the basis of the health of the people 
when brought together in great masses. 



The Geographical and Population Arguments show the 
folly of allowing the Fair gates to be burst open on Sunday. 

" By passiug southward on the east side of Lake Michigan, then westward and around the 
southern end of the lake, then northward on the western side of the city of Chicago until you 
touch the lake again, you cross the terminal of about forty railroads and still others in pro- 
gress of building. All the passenger traffic of those roads centres in Chicago. Cleveland, 
Ohio, on the Lake Shore road, is 35() miles from Chicago ; Akron, on the New York and Penn- 
sylvania road, is 347 miles from Chicago ; Alliance, on the Pittsburg and Fort Wayne road, 
is 348 miles from Chicago ; Mount Vernon, on the Baltimore and Ohio road, is 334 miles from 
Chicago ; Delaware, on the Big Four, is 385 miles f i om Chicago ; Columbus, by the Pan 
Handle route, is 315 miles from Chicago ; Cincinnati is 306 miles from Chicago. The schedule 



time trova Louisville to Chicago is the same as that from Columbus to Chicago. Cairo is 365 
miles from Chkago. St. Louis is 283 miles from Chicago, or seveu hours by rail, and a city 
of over 400,000 people. 

" Apply those (listaiues to the Chicago, Kurlingtou and Kansas City and its branches ; to 
the Chicago. Burlington and Alton and its branches; to the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, 
etc.; to the Chicago, Kock Island and Pacific, and Burlington and Cedar Kupids, and Northern 
and Minneapolis and its branches ; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha and its 
branches : Chicago and Iowa, and still others, and their branches ; cross the lake, eastward 
toward Detroit and Cleveland and Buffalo again, and there you have the Grand Trunk, the 
Canada Southern, the Michigan Central, and so on to the end, and you have the tei-mini of all 
the romis of the seven States— Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michi- 
gan — and all centring in Chicago. Missouri, with 5,000 miles of railroad; Wisconsin, with 
ov«'r 5,000 miles; Michigan, with 5,700 miles; Indiana, with 0,550 miles; Ohio, with 7,500 
miles ; Iowa, with over 8,000 miles, and Illmois, with 10.000 miles. An aggregate in those 
seven States of over 48,000 miles of railroad— 50,(M»0 by 1893 — and those roads coining from 
scores and hundreds of towns and cities, with populations from 5,000 to over 400,0<)0, and 
from States aggregating a population of over l().000,(iOO. 

'• And then all those roads from those States with that population and from that circum- 
ference terminating in a city that has already over a million people, and then all those 
roatls running Saturday night and Sunday excursion trains, and gathering up as they 
go — in large part at least— a rough, vulgar, and intemperate crowd of passengers, and then 
when reaching that city find the gambling dens, the low theatres, the bawdy houses, the 
places of nameless vice and shame and crime and vile resort, and the 4,0u0 — yes, the 5,000 
saloons— yes, the O.OOC saloons — there and the Fair, and all, all open to receive that kind of 
mob anil crowd and horde, coming to a common centre from the circumference of a circle — 
from 3^0 to 400 miles distant — including, as I have said, a population of over sixteen millions 
of people and 50,000 miles of railroad on eviery Sabbath during the live or six months' con- 
tinuance of that Exposition : 

•' Imagine now, if you can, what would be the magnitude, the enormity, of the violation of 
the Sabbath in those'states named, and especially in the city of Chicago on the Lord's Day— 
and during all that time, *A11 that the mind would shrink from of excesses, all that humanity 
perpetrates of bad, all that we read or hear or dream of man's distresses,' or of vice and crime 
and shame, and wholesale moral ruin — all that would there be let loose ! 

** On Pennsylvania day at the Philadelphia Centennial there were 160,000 persons passed 
through the gates of the Exposition. But what would even that large number be in com- 
parison to that multitude that would already be in Chicago, and that additional mass that 
would come from the population and the extent of the country I have indicated? " — Rev. Dr. 
J. B Helicig, of Dayton, 0. 

Dynamite, Communism, Anarchy will be rampant in Chi- 
cago unless kept away and restrained by the Sabbath. 



IV. 

To KEEP THE Gates shut on Sunday will aid the Exhibi- 
tion's Financial Success, and Bless the Workingman. 

A careful examination of statistics of transportation earn- 
ings in America, England, Germany, France, Italy, and Aus- 
tria justifies the following conclusions : 

To rest on Sunday secures a gain of fifty per cent, of in- 
come. To work on Sunday, of fourteen per cent. Therefore 



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there is a ditference of thirty-six per cent, in favor of I'est on 
the Sabbath. 

Eastern Tennessee was settled by two parties starting from 
Western Pennsylvania at the same time ; one party travelling 
on Sunday and the other resting. The Sunday resting trav- 
ellers arrived in good order, in good health, with their draught 
animals in good condition before the Sunday travelling party 
arrived, and the latter came in in bad order with some sick 
and with lame animals. 



In the early fifties a large party started to immigrate from 
St. Louis to California. When the first Sunday arrived, a 
portion of them were in such a hurry to get to their journey's 
end and so greedy to get at the gold for which they were 
going that they travelled on. The balance of the party rested 
on Sunday and arrived at San Francisco in good order about 
thirty days ahead of the Sunday travellers. 



When the Hudson River West Shore Railroad was first 
completed, the Directors made a special feature of Sunday 
excursion and freight trains, and the result was that railroad 
wept into bankruptcy. Under the new management, the 
movement of freight on Sunday has ceased, and Sunday 
transportation has been reduced to a minimum. The road 
now both pays its own expenses and some reward to its 
owners. 

Secretary Blaine a few years ago went on a coaching party 
through the State of Maine, for a distance of about 700 miles, 



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under au agreement among themselves not to take a liorse 
out on Sunday. The result was that at the conclusion of the 
700-mile trip, the horses were just as fresh as when they first 
started. 

In France it is a common remark tiiat artisans, because 
they work on Sunday, are fit for nothing and do not perform 
their contracts on Monday and Tuesday, thus substantially 
killing two days of the week, and hardly any artisans attain 
an age of forty-five years. 

In the Mohammedan World, numbering over three hun- 
dred millions of our fellow beings, the rest day is unknown ; 
and the consequence is that the workingmen's wages are only 
from twenty to sixty cents a day. 



" Horace Greeley wrote from Switzerland years ago : ' I could wish you miglit stand an 
hour with me on Sunday morning in the labor market in Geneva, and see the troops of dull, 
tired, saddened-looking laborers, in ragged blouses, unwashed from the grime and sweat of 
one week's work of seven days, trudging off sluggishly and wearily, like dumb, driven cattle, 
to the work of the next week of seven days. "Are these slaves? " you ask. Slaves ! Bless 
you, no. These are freemen. These are voters aud citizens in a land of universal suffrage, 
under the freest government on earth with an advanced and liberal constitution of the latest 
French invention, and with all the modern improvements.. No blue laws here. They once 
had blue laws in Geneva, but they have laughed them down long ago. This, which you see, 
is liberty, complete, uutrammeled, personal liberty. Every one of these free citizens has a 
right, a proud, irrevocable right to work on Sunday if he chooses, and that is what it ends in 
for him, and that is what it will end in for you if you choose to make the costly experiment. 
The workingman who may work on Sunday has got to work on Sunday when work is wanted. 
The right to rest for each depends upon the law of rest for all. Think of it, think of it twice, 
think of it again, then say if you will barter away your birthright, the American Sabbath, the 
universal privilege of rich and poor, for this miserable French delusion, this continental 
holiday through which one-half of the i>eople have to toil that the other half may frolic." 

The closing on Sunday of the Centennial Exhibition in 
Philadelphia, in 1876, was found not to impair the total 
number of the visitors during the week. 



There are over fifty millions of Christians in this Country. 
If the Fair should be opened on Sunday, they will care and 



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contribute very little for its success. If closed on Sunday 
they Avill be enthusiastic and constant in their efforts to make 
it a great success. 

The American Sabbath Union are promoting among em- 
ployers throughout the United States the disposition to give 
their Avorkingmen an opportunity to visit the Fair, and are 
promoting among the railroads a reduction of fare for 
workingmen and their families going to the Fair, and are 
promoting in the National Commission and Board of Direc- 
tors the designation of Wednesday of certain weeks as 
Workingmen's Day, when they and their families may visit 
the Fair at greatly reduced rates. 

Should each of these propositions carry, the number of 
workingmen and their families visiting the Fair will count 
by the hundreds of thousands, coming from all parts of the 
United States instead of only tens of thousands as would 
otherwise be the case. 

Should these propositions be adopted, workingmen from 
Maine, from Texas, Colorado, and Montana can visit the Fair 
and return to their homes again within the time between Mon- 
day morning and Saturday night of any week. 

The American Sabbath Union will also propose to Con- 
gress to authorize that all foreign goods whicli shall be in 
good faith exhibited at the Fair during the wliole period of 
its existence may, at the option of the exhibitors, be sold in 
this country free of duty, and that the Exposition shall be 



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entitled to receive a commission of 5 per cent, upon all such 
sales. 

If this proposition should carry it would probably increase 
the foreign exhibits tenfold. 

In these and in other ways the finances of the Fair will 
be benefited b}^ keeping the gates closed on Sunday. 

The Farmers Alliance at their Convention at Ocala, Fla., 
in 1890, President L. L. Polk, presiding, voted that obedience 
to the laws of God are the conserving force of human govern- 
ment, and requested that the American Sabbath should not 
be desecrated by keeping open the gates of the National 
Fair. 

The American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers, 
President, at their convention at Birmingham, Alabama, in 
December, 1891, resolved "That one day's rest in seven is a 
moral, physical, and economical necessity ; and wages are 
lower in those vocations and countries where the seven-day 
labor system prevails." 



The Keeping of the Gates of the Fair closed on Sunday 
is demanded by the christian and patriotic sentiment of 
THE Country. 

This sentiment has been expressed in petitions sent to 
every Kepresentative from his own district and every Sena- 



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tor from his own State, and by petitions numbering up into 
the millions sent to the World's Columbian Commission, 
coming from every State in the Union. 

One of these petitions is from the Synod of the Pacific, 
San Francisco, numbering 16,093. Another presented by 
the Hon. L. S. Coffin, late Railroad Commissioner for Iowa, 
representing the whole Railroad Service of the United States, 
numbering 750,000. Another comes from the Quarterly Con- 
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Delaware, num- 
bering over 5,000. 

Another petition from St. Augustine, Tampa, Florida, has 
1,332 signatures. Others from Illinois, without the limits of 
Chicago, aggregate over 30,000. The petition of tlie yearly 
meeting of the Society of Friends held at Richmond, Ind., 
represents 22,000. The Evangelical Synod at Albion, Ind., 
represents 4,000. From Iowa there are petitions from 146 
churches of various denominations, Sunday-schools, Young 
Men's Christian Associations, Women's Christian Temper- 
ance Unions, Young People's Societies of Christian Endeavor, 
representing many thousands of citizens. From Kansas 
there are petitions from 28 different towns. 

In Kentucky there are petitions from most of its leading 
cities. From Louisiana there is a petition from the Evan- 
gelical Ministers Union, New Orleans. From Maine there 
are petitions from many of its cities and towns. From Mary- 
land the Wilmington Annual Conference of the M. E. Church 
petitioned, representing 40,000 citizens. From Massachu- 
setts the numbers are immense. From Michigan there is 



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the petition of the Detroit Presbytery, representing 80,000 
citizens, and that of the General Assembly of the Presbyter- 
ian Church, representing four millions. 

There are petitions numerously signed from Minnesota, 
Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, 
New Jersey, New York. In New Jersey the classis of the 
Dutch Reformed Church petitioned, representing 15,000. 
The Baptist State Convention, representing 39,000. The 
Christian Endeavor Society, representing 23,000 citizens. 
The Presbytery of New York petitioned, representing 150,- 
000. And the Northern Conference of the M. E. Church, 
representing 28,000. There are petitions from North Caro- 
lina, North Dakota, Ohio, and Oregon. In Pennsylvania the 
petition of the United Presbyterian Church of North Amer- 
ica represents 100,000 citizens and the State Sabbath School 
Association Convention, 1,088,083. 

There are numerous petitions from Bhode Island, South 
Carolina, South Dakota. Tennessee, Texas, and from Ver- 
mont ; the Vermont Baptist State Convention, representing 
8,800. 

There are numerous petitions from Virginia, Washington 
West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. 

Mrs. Carse, one of the Lady Managers of the Fair, pre- 
sented a petition signed by about ten thousand women. 
Mrs. Batcham, the National Superintendent of the Sabbath 
Observance Department, W. C. T. U., with the sanction of 
Miss Frances E. AVillard, the President, has been instru- 
mental in securing by signature and attestation two millions 
of names to the Sunday closing petition. 



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The East Pennsylvania Evangelical Lutheran Synod peti- 
tioned 17,000 strong, and the Eastern Eeformed Church 
Synod, 85,000 strong. One set of petitions from Pennsyl- 
vania, presented by Eev. Dr. T. L. Fernley, represented 
495,022 people, 1,189 churches, 1,399 ministers, 22 societies, 
and 22 synods and conferences. Most Reverend John 
Ireland, Archbishop of St. Paul, telegraphs : " I cordially 
unite with you in asking that the gates of the World's Fair 
be closed on Sundays. This we demand for the honor of 
our Christian Country and in the interest of our laboring, 
classes." 

The State of New York has positively directed that its 
Exhibit shall be kept closed on Sunday. Action of the same 
general nature has been taken by the Legislatures in Massa- 
chusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Ohio, Arkan- 
sas, and other States. 

The exhibits of England, Canada, and Australia and Ger- 
many will probably be closed on Sunday. 



The Board of Lady Managers, appointed by the Presi- 
dent*, and taken from all the States and Territories, adopted 
a resolution at Chicago, in September, 1891, that, " it is the 
sense of the Lady Board of Managers that the American 
Sabbath should not be desecrated by the opening of the 
great Fair on Sundays." 

In the Protestant Episcopal Church declarations have 
been made in favor of keeping the Fair closed on Sundays 



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by the Right Reverend Bishops of Counecticut, Rhode Island, 
Western New York, Virginia, Missouri, Central New York, 
Central Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Colorado, New Jersey, 
Western Michigan, Newark, Washington, Maryland, Western 
Texas, Ohio, Wyoming, Idaho, Michigan, and also by many 
other Bishops of many other denominations, including the 
Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, also of 
the Moravian Church. 

These and other declarations fully confirm this fifth point. 



VI. 

Keeping the Gates Closed on Sunday Will Honor God 
AND Preserve the Faith of the Nation. 

The Fourth Commandment has never been repealed. It 
is as follows : 

" Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy. Six days 
shall thou labour, and do all thy work ; but the seventh is 
the Sabbath of the Lord thy God ; in it thou shalt do no 
work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man- 
servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stran- 
ger that is within thy gates, for in six days the Lord made 
Heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested 
the seventh day ; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath 
Day and hallowed it." 

Our Lord Jesus Christ interpreted and applied this law, 
saying that the Sabbath was made for man. 

The Creature cannot do better than to follow the example 



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of the Creator, and, after His six days work. He rested the 
seventh. The account of this is distinct and repeated in the 
early Chapters, of Genesis. 

The Nation's faith in God and his hiws will be put to the 
test by the action of their Congress on this subject. If Con- 
gress shall flinch or be recreant to their high duty, the Na- 
tion will be cast down, amazed and wounded beyond descrip- 
tion. Other nations who already know of the American Sab- 
bath and its wonderful blessings will point the finger of 
scorn at us, deride us, and say that we shall soon be down 
upon their low level. 

God is calling to America in His Providence, on this sub- 
ject, as distinctly as he did to Abraham to offer up his son 
Isaac, and Congress can prove as faithful as faithful 
Abraham. 

VII. 

To Adopt the Proviso that The ExrosiTioN shall be 

KEPT CLOSED ON SUNDAY WILL TEACH ViSITING NATIONS THE 

WAY OF Happiness. 

It is hoped that all the Nations of the Earth will be rep- 
sented at the Chicago Exposition. If they find that our 
National Institutions, welfare, and happiness are protected 
and bulwarked by the Sabbath, very naturally they will seek 
to establish a Sabbath in their own lands. 



France is already making an effort in this direction. Her 
great statesman, M. Leon Say, a Senator, at times President 



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of the Senate and Minister of Finance, is President of a 
popular League for the observance of Sunday in France, 
which, in March, 1892, held a large Congress in Paris, over 
which Mr. Say presided, and adopted resolutions recom- 
mending the reinstitution by law of the Sabbath Kest Day 
in their beloved country. 

Mr. Lombard, of Geneva, is President of the Swiss Society 
with similar objects. 

The Workingmen's Congress, held in Berlin, held at the 
call of the Kaiser, Wilhelm XL, resolved that Sunday laboi' 
should be abandoned. 



There is no Sunday delivery of the mails in London nor 
Edinburgh. 

Toronto, Canada, is one of the best Sabbath-keeping cities 
in the world, and it is increasing in population and wealth 
on that account more rapidly than any other city in Canada, 
while Quebec, which has but a very poor and indifferent 
Sunday, has been deteriorating and lessening for years. 

It is He that giveth thee power to get wealth. Deuter- 
onomy, 8:18. 

There is an illumitable blessing annexed to the keeping of 
God's Day of Rest, and this blessing is for individuals, fam- 
ilies, communities, cities. States, Nations, and the World. 

ELLIOTT F. SHEPARD, 
President of the Amierican Sahhath Union. 



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